Habit

Prayer

Lord, thank-you that we can gather today to hear your word. May it be your words we hear, guided by the Holy Spirit. May we each humble ourselves to learn what it is in this moment you want to teach us. May todays message spur us on to be bold to declare Your good news to the people you put on our hearts. Amen

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Habit - not the most exciting word

A habit is a routine of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously.

2009 Study Publised in the European Journal of Social Psychology - It can take anywhere from 18 to 254 days for a person to form a new habit and an average of 66 days for a new behavior to become automatic.

become more aware of your habits so you can develop strategies to change them

Di Talked about putting away Childish things

Disciplined to form new habits

Parents apply discipline to guiding childern to have good habits and warn away from bad habits

Not safe when I don’t have boundries

Hebrews 12:7–11 NIV

Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father? If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all. Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live! They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness. No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

Now as a father - my expereince - wanting nothing to harm them

My expereience as a son - wanting to have my own experience

Proverbs 22:6 ESV

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

To be disciplined - child to an adult

Inspired by simon (fellowship) - start the day with a prayer

My new habbit - reading - Lord there is a lot of things I could do today, and lots of things I might like to do today; but what Should I do - what would You have me do today? Guide me, and help me steward well my focus and my time and my energy, for your glory.

Atomic Habits

you dont riase to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of you habits

Need to find joy in our habits

Philippians 4:8–9 NIV

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

Sport - playing with others inspires me to go for a run, park run. So that I am healthy of mind and spirit.

I do not have the motivation to keep the habit myself.

Reading the bible in a year

1 Corinthians 9:24–27 ESV

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

Invite people to share about a habit that they have enjoyed or one they seek to get into